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It may have been the most emotion-filled park opening ceremony in Long Beach history. Hundreds of admirers stood under the sweltering June sun Thursday to mark the opening of Jenni Rivera Memorial Park, in honor of the late Grammy-nominated banda singer who died at 43 in a December 2012

LOS ANGELES - Jenni Rivera’s estate filed a negligence lawsuit Monday against the owners of the Learjet that crashed near Monterrey, Mexico, killing the Long Beach-based singer and four members of her entourage in 2012.

LOS ANGELES — An investigation of the 2012 Learjet crash near Monterrey, Mexico, that killed Long Beach-based singer Jenni Rivera and six others is not finished, an attorney representing relatives of Rivera’s entourage said today.

She’s had back-to-back sold-out shows at the Nokia Theatre, was nominated for multiple Latin Grammy Awards and sold more than 15 million albums worldwide while recently making the New York Times Best Sellers list, and as early as 3 a.

UNIVERSAL CITY - She had wanted a celebration with her brass band playing over her casket, rousing applause, a little tequila and beer, and some flitting butterflies. | PHOTOS | Thousands of fans remember Jenni | Archive of our live blog

The plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground at a speed that may have exceeded 600 miles per hour, Mexico's top transportation official said Tuesday. | PHOTOS

Long Beach native Jenni Rivera's journey from the impoverished daughter of Mexican immigrants to the renown "La Diva de la Banda" isn't only reflective of the superstar singer's ability to straddle popularity on both sides

FAME & FLYING: You reach a certain amount of success in this life and you're going to wind up on an airplane. For athletes, politicians, actors and musicians, flying is part of the package, whether it's glamorous jet-setting or just part of the drudgery of city-to-city, country- to-country touring that comes with the job.